A meeting was held in the Town-hall of Southwark last
night,—Mr. Pritchard, High Bailiff, in the chair,—to consider the question of corpo- rate reform, and to appoint a deputation to lay the views of the meeting before the Royal Commissioners. Two resolutions were passed,—one, that corporate institutions ought to be maintained, with improvements suitable to the exigencies of the present time ; the other, that the whole Parliament- ary Borough of Southwark should be incorporated with the City of Lon- don. Amendments to these resolutions were proposed, objecting to incor- poration with the City of London : but they met with no support. A letter from Sir William Molesworth, whom Ministerial duties prevented from attending, assured the meeting, that, as one of their representatives, he would be "happy to cooperate with them in endeavouring to obtain for Southwark a just and proper share in the advantages of corporate in- stitutions." A Committee was formed to select the persons to be ex- amined by the Commission.
At a sitting on Thursday, the Town-Council of Dundee resolved that an address should be presented to the Queen praying that all administra- tive business connected with Scotland should be "intrusted to the ma- nagement of a Secretary of State."
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